An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

92. BOOTAN.depositing all kinds of stores. A covered gallery, runs all roundthem ; beneath which are subterraneous places, serving for kitchens.A range of good rooms, with boarded floors, on the first story, accom-/ modates all the officers of state, who are attendant on the Raja ; andIthese again, towards the square, are skirted by a deep varanda, supportedby a row of handsome pillars, whose capitals are ornamentedwith carved work and gilding, and their sides painted with vermilion.The varandas are lofty and broad, and are not, in my opinion,without an air of magnificence.Over this story, is a sort of terrace of cement, with rooms moreroughly finished, which are intended for the inferior officers, styledZeenkaubs ; they are covered only by the roof, which is constructedin the usual manner, of cross beams of fir,resting upon upright posts,and planks of deal placed on them, with large stones to keep themdown. These beams are supported high above the walls, and projectfar beyond them. The north square is, in appearance, a very confusedassemblage of apartments ; I fear, therefore, that it will scarcely bepossible to give an intelligible description of it : let it then suffice tosay, that it is composed of a motley mixture of kitchens, cells, andtemples.We had now become tolerably well settled in our quarters ;but, notwithstandinga vertical sun, the coldness of the weather, to our feelings,who had been so lately accustomed to the hot region of Bengal,recalled the idea of something beyond the rigour of an Indian winter;and consequently our first care, after taking possession of our mansion,was employed in fining the wainscots of the apartments, with the thickest